RLAM's Talbut outlines goals

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Robert Talbut, newly installed chief investment officer at Royal London Asset Management, has outlined his immediate goals and views on the market.

These include beefing up the bond team, continuing a review of the equities teams, and looking to options for leveraging expertise in the area of quantitative analysis. Before any major initiatives are put in place, however, Talbut says he needs to spend more time studying how teams do their job currently before making any suggestions. And, while he admits that, for example, the area of bonds could be tackled somewhat “better”, he recognises that there are already skills in place that could be used to do this. ”We need to leverage what we’ve already done,” he says. ”We should be m...

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